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Steve Corder of Athlon Sports made waves in the offseason with a bombshell report on the Colorado Buffaloes football program. In an article published in early August, Corder suggested that the culture in Boulder had gone completely off the rails.
“Fights, guns, and money” were terms used to describe the environment within Deion Sanders’ locker room, with one former player said to have called Colorado a “real-life Grand Theft Auto video game.”
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A few former players have spoken anonymously to Athlon, fearing retaliation, if they went on the record.
“It’s like a real-life Grand Theft Auto video game,” one former player said. “There are many distractions with fights, guns, and money floating around. The environment is unlike any I’ve come from before.”
Another former player went deeper into the violent incidents within CU’s football program, recounting three separate alleged occurrences over the past year, each unfathomable in any normal locker room.
Coach Prime denied the accusations, hinting at potential legal action though nothing’s been brought forth to this point.
Corder, meanwhile, doubled down on his reporting during an appearance on the Dan Le Batard Show.
Players named in the story have come out in denial of the alleged events, some still within the program and some who’ve since moved on.
Just when the report seemed to be slipping out of the public eye, the writer who published the original article brought it back into the spotlight.
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Steve Corder says that the fight occurred between ex-assistant Trevor Reilly and graduate assistant Josh Jynes after Reilly informed the team of his resignation.
Corder alleges that Warren Sapp is narrating the video, which was captured on surveillance cameras on campus.
The writer also suggested that this wasn’t the first altercation between the two coaches and that Deion Sanders’ job could be at risk due to the incident.
The University of Colorado is a public institution. As such, Sanders could be disciplined or fired by the university for “Failing to immediately report to the Athletics Director serious student-athlete or Football staff misconduct Sanders knew or should have known about,” according to his contract…
The Reilly-Jynes fight is the seventh violent incident at Colorado during Deion Sanders’ tenure to be described by witnesses to Athlon Sports.
At best, it’s an unnecessary distraction leading into the Buffs’ rivalry game vs. Nebraska. At worst, the Colorado culture reports are being proven true.